Introduction of the RSJ

Introduction of the RSJ (RSJ) 0 Copyright c cthe The Robotics Robotics Society Society of Japan, of All Japan, Rights All Reserved Rights Reserved

CONTENTS 1. About the RSJ: Purposes, Activities Organization, Members 2. Activities: Japanese and International Journal Annual conferences, Seminars Globalization, Awards, Committees 3. Services: 4. Contribution to Society: Education Industry-Academia Collaboration The Great East Japan Earthquake 1 Copyright c, All Rights Reserved

1. About the RSJ Establishment: January 28, 1983 Purposes: Promoting progress in academic fields and providing specialists with a venue for announcing their research and sharing technical information Activities: Publishing: Journal of the RSJ, Advanced Robotics and Texts Conferences: Annual Conference of the RSJ and Robotics Symposia (Sponsored by SICE, JSME and RSJ) Seminar: Robotics Seminar Awards: Best Paper Award, Advanced Robotics Best Paper Award so on Committees: Special Interest Groups and Surveillance Committee (The Great East Japan Earthquake) Globalization: Cosponsor of IROS and Ro-man, International Education 2 Copyright c, All Rights Reserved

Organization Map of the RSJ General Meeting (Delegates: 56) Board of Directors (22) -President -Vice Presidents - General Affairs -Budget and Finance -Planning - Publication of Japanese Journal -Publication of International Journal - Academic Activity - Annual Conference -International Affairs -Auditors Committees -Advisory Board - Editorial Committee of the Japanese Journal - Editorial Committee of the International Journal - Activity Planning Committee - International Affairs Committee - Executive Committee of the Annual Conference - Award Committees - Publication Committee - Task Force on RSJ Future Planning - Compliance Committee, so on Administration Office (5) -Secretary General -Staff 3 Copyright c, All Rights Reserved

Number of Members (at Dec. 31, 2017) Number of individual members: 4,076 Regular members: 2,977, Student members: 983 Honorary members: 9, Life members (Since 2012): 107 Number of Supporting members: 82 Breakdown of members 4 Copyright c, All Rights Reserved

2. Activities: Journal of the RSJ Journal of the RSJ: Since 1983, Last volume: 33, Published 10 issues per year Carrying papers, review articles and information for members All individual members can read and download the papers and the review articles at J-Stage online archive. 5 Copyright c, All Rights Reserved

International Journal (1) Advanced Robotics:Since 1988, Last volume: 29, Published 24 issues per year, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Carrying Only English papers All individual members can read and download the papers at an online archive of Taylor & Francis. 6 Copyright c, All Rights Reserved

International Journal (2) Number of contributions increases year by year. 502contributions in 2017 Contributions from Japan and East Asia are major. 2007 2017 7 Copyright c, All Rights Reserved

Conferences Annual Conference of RSJ : Main event held by the Society in September. The 35th Annual Conference was held in 2017 at Toyo Univ.. Robotics Symposia (Sponsored by SICE, JSME and RSJ) Purpose: Higher level presentation and discussion The 22th Symposium was held in 2017. 8 Copyright c, All Rights Reserved

Robotics Seminar Seminars that cover everything from basic to advanced technical topics About 7 seminars per year Average number of participants in one seminar: About 50 Services for the supporting members: Free ticket and Discount ticket Remote seminar has been started since 2013. 9 Copyright c, All Rights Reserved

Introduction of RSJ Globalization Cosponsorship of International conferences Cooperation with Asian researchers Cosponsorship of International conferences - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) - International Symposium on Robot and Human Communication (Ro-Man) Asian Robotics Society Union (ARSU) - Established in 2006 - Participating nations: Korea, China, Taiwan, Australia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, India, Japan Technical-sponsorship of International conferences - International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB) - IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for the Intelligent Systems (MFI) - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) - International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) - International Symposium on Robots (ISR) - Micro Materials Conference (Micro Mat) - International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) 10 Copyright c, All Rights Reserved

Awards Honoring of academic activities and contributions to society - Best Paper Award - Advanced Robotics Best Paper Award - Technical Innovation Award - Young Investigation Excellence Award - Robotics Symposia Young Investigator Excellence Award - Robots and Society Award - Distinguished Service Award 30th anniversary founder award (At Sapporo city in 2012) 11 Copyright c, All Rights Reserved

Committees Special Interest Groups:(13 committees in 2017) - Special Interest Group on Play and Robot - Special Interest Group on Robotics Philosophy - Special Interest Group on Humanoid Robotics - Special Interest Group on Soft Robotics - Special Interest Group on Open Intelligence - Special Interest Group on Intelligent Home Robotics - Special Interest Group on Data Engineering Robotics - Special Interest Group on Network Robotics Services - Special Interest Group on Robotics Young Researchers Network in Kansai - Special Interest Group on Robotics Association for Young Researchers HUROBINT - Special Interest Group on Human Centric Robotics - Special Interest Group on Robot Technology in Hokkaido - Special Interest Group on Intelligent Space Surveillance Committee: (3 committees in 2015) - Surveillance Committee on Decommissioning Robotics (Since 2015. 1) - Surveillance Committee on Industry-Academia Collaboration (Since 2013. 5) - Surveillance Committee on Extensive Technical Platform for Disaster Response (Since 2013. 1) Fundamental Category Committee: (2 committees in 2015) - Committee on Robotics Education (Since 2015. 4) - Committee on Construction Robot (Since 2013. 10) 12 Copyright c, All Rights Reserved

3. Services on Web Site (http://www.rsj.or.jp/en) Membership Services: - Renewal and Confirmation of Private Membership Data - Online RSJ Journal (J-Stage): Reading and downloading papers and reviews that were published in the last year - Online Advanced Robotics: Reading and downloading all the papers in back issues - Proceedings Archive of Annual Conference of RSJ Open Services for Non Members: - Robotics Laboratories in Japan: Link site - History of Robotics Research and Development of Japan - Online RSJ Journal (J-Stage): Pay service - Online Advanced Robotics: Pay service 13 Copyright c, All Rights Reserved

History of Robotics Research and Development of Japan Archive of Historical Japanese Robotics Research from 1960s to current research http://www.rsj.or.jp/en/services/general 14 Copyright c, All Rights Reserved

4.Contribution to Education Robot High school: Cooperation with the International Robot Exhibition (irex) 2009 and 2011 Japanese high school students experienced dismantling and operation of real industrial robots. International Robotics Forum for High School Students (1st: IRH 2013 3rd: IRH 2017) http://www.rsj.or.jp/en/education/irh2013/report http://www.rsj.or.jp/en/education/irh2015/report http://www.rsj.or.jp/en/education/irh2017/report An event cooperated with irex Call on high school students around the world Interchanging between students, Advanced robot lectures and Presentations by students Robot High school 4th IRH 2018 will be held in this October. 15 IRH 2017 Copyright c, All Rights Reserved

5.Contribution to Society: The Great East Japan Earthquake Coopetition for a response to the Great East Japan Earthquake: Establish of the Surveillance Committee on Tohoku Earthquake (2011. 3) Cooperation with Disaster Response Robotics Task Force (volunteer action of robotics researchers and engineers) (2011. 4) Joint statement by the Japanese academic societies concerning with robotics (2011. 4) Joint statement for application of Japanese robot technologies to the disaster responses for the Great East Japan Earthquake and the nuclear disasters of Hukushima The Japan Robotics Society The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers: Robotics and Mechatronics Division The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers: System Integration Division IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, Japan Chapter IFToMM, Japan Council Action of the Surveillance Committee on Tohoku Earthquake: Subcommittee for recording nuclear disaster response technologies: Final report (in Japanese) (2014.10) http://www.rsj.or.jp/databox/committees/141001saigaikiroku_fainal_zanntei.pdf Subcommittee for recording general disasters response technologies: Interim report at the 30th Annual Conference (2012.9) 16 Copyright c, All Rights Reserved